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Cognitive dissonance
I was watching a program about the history of the KKK on the history channel at 3 in the morning one day last week. There was a segment that showed one of their pervertedly religious cross burning ceremonies, and at the end of it, this guy started playing Amazing Grace on the bagpipes ( Read more... ) -
Your Silence Will Not Protect You.
Working in the library at Temple this morning, I found a book about the Klan's campaign against Jews in Mississippi during the civil rights movement in the 60s.
Terror in the Night by Jack Nelson. I'm about halfway through reading it now ( Read more... ) -
Funny Little Bear
Little Bear has to write word problems for his math class ( Read more... ) -
Capitalism A Love Story
Hub and I watched Michael Moore's film "Capitalism: A Love Story" yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Movie review - Chris Rock's "Good Hair."
The other night night we watched Chris Rock’s documentary “Good Hair ( Read more... ) -
"The Blind Side"
Went to see the inlaws today, and they took us to see "The Blind Side," because it's one of those inspirational, based-on-a-true-story movies that my MIL loves. Nothing wrong with that ( Read more... ) -
Thanksgiving
Ok, we all know that the ritualized Story of the First Thanksgiving is bunk ( Read more... ) -
All My Babies - on Netflix
On a whim I picked out a documentary called "All My Babies" from Netflix. I picked it out because it was described as a documentary about African American midwives in rural Georgia in 1952. To be more accurate, it was made as a teaching film for those midwives. It was filmed in Albany, in Dougherty Co., in 1951-52, which was an interesting time for ( Read more... ) -
Letter to the Editor
I wrote this. Maybe it will be published in the Macon paper ( Read more... )
